license needed for muzzleloading??

[shooter]

Does your regular firearms license cover you for muzzeloading or do you have to buy a seperate license??? Can you use any unused tags that you have???

[GatorBait]

"One buck deer per unused Gun Buck Deer Tag & additional anterless deer per unused Unit Specific Anterless Deer Tag."

If you used both your tags (doe/buck) during the gun season, you can buy an additional doe tag for $2 to use for muzzleloading season. So yes, you can carry over any unused tags from rifle season, or buy additional doe tags.

Good Luck

GatorBait

[shooter]

So my rifle license is all i need? I dont have to by a muzzleloader license? Do they sell just a muzzleloading license? Thanks for the reply

[GatorBait]

Nope, no such thing as a muzzleloading license, just your rifle license(s). It's classified the same as rifle season, except you're using a muzzleloader with 1x scope or less.

[shooter]

thanks for the info.. Are there a lot of guys that are doing this? Are the laws the same for non-residents? Im from Minn and are laws are different.

Thanks again and good hunting

[GatorBait]

The muzzleloading season probably pulls a 1/4 of what rifle season does, if that. I don't see it as being something most people around here dream about, but I see more and more people going out and experiencing a new or traditional, if you will, way of hunting. I have been muzzleloading for about 4 years now, but my work schedule greatly affects when I can venture out. I enjoy it when I go though.

Yeah, the laws regarding all information on hunting are the same for non-resident hunters, there are no exceptions or differences.

[shooter]

thanks for the info..... i let you know how we do.... good luck if you make it out

[Wade Joseph]

This is straight from the regs,

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Muzzleloaders

• Only smoothbore .45 caliber or larger and rifled .40 caliber or larger

muzzleloaders, discharged from the shoulder, are legal for deer hunting. During

the 10-day muzzleloader only season (Nov. 27 - Dec. 6), muzzleloaders must

have a solid threaded breech plug, only be able to be loaded from the muzzle, and

may not have telescopic sights (1 power or less are legal). Telescopic sights are

legal to use on muzzleloaders during other firearm seasons. Note: Inline

muzzleloaders are legal to use during the 10-day muzzleloader hunt with black

powder or any black powder substitutes.

• Muzzleloaders may be used statewide in all areas open to hunting deer with guns.

• Only muzzleloading handguns .44 caliber and larger with a minimum barrel

length of 7 inches measured from muzzle to breech face, that fire a single

projectile weighing 138 grains or more are legal for deer hunting.

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